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3 Winners and Losers From Brazil’s Latest Corruption Revelations

By Brian Winter

The “end of the world” finally arrived, and it wasn’t pretty.

After months of anticipation, Brazil’s Supreme Court released on Tuesday the names of dozens of politicians who will be investigated as part of the ongoing probe into corruption at state oil company Petrobras. The list is a veritable who’s-who of Brazilian politics, and includes nearly a third of President Michel Temer’s Cabinet and a third of the Senate. The release, based on...

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